[shardinator]

Massage under the mastoid process of the temporal bone. This will release pressure on your Limbic System in general, improving your emotional connection to the world, and in particular will let your Amygdala to settle reducing your sense of fear, in turn making you a more joyful and open person. Long term you want to find a way to strengthen and balance your Deep Neck Flexors and Deep Neck Extensors, however how to do that effectively is a very open question.

[rackjack]

Whoa, just fiddling up there with my thumbs has me feeling different. Are there any resources on self-massage you would recommend? You seem knowledgeable about it.

[shardinator]

Actually I had to devise most of this myself as I've had a physical & mental, disability that was getting worse and worse with no cure or useful treatment. I'm writing things up at the moment, basically an explanation of how muscular imbalances lead to brain and nerve dysfunction causing (possibly explaining, depression, anxiety and a whole lot of other things) and what to do about it.

I should be able to share in a few weeks, if you're interested can you send me a message twitter.com/shardinator and I'll send you an early copy. Else I'll post something here when it's a little more fleshed out.

[rackjack]

If you're gonna post it here I'll just keep tabs on your profile since I don't use Twitter. Looking forward to the post!

[shardinator]

Sure thing. I think I should be able to post it here by the beginning of Dec.

[kakkan]

How do you find the temporal bone? Would you have a reference video so that I could try it out? Temporal bone massage returned some vague results.

[mkl]

You should look up [mastoid process]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mastoid+process&atb=v279-1__&iax=i...

The temporal bones are big plates of the skull your ears attach to, and a "process" in anatomy is a sticking-out part of a larger bone.